Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners in 3 distinct art units. LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution shows that each pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit.
With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the portfolio's progress is subject to 3 different individual perspectives. The concentration within 3 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter is spread across several different specialized groups. Practitioners must manage 3 separate examiner relationships while ensuring that the arguments remain appropriate for each of the 3 distinct art units. This distribution means that no single examiner, including LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER, has a majority of the workload. The variety of examiners provides a range of feedback, which can be useful for refining the company's overall patent strategy. This decentralized approach ensures that each matter is reviewed by a specific technical expert in its field.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 1 | 93.1% | +9.5% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.0% | +22.3% |
| MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 1 | 53.3% | +65.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) INTERPRETATION USING AN ARITIFICAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL AND A RULE-BASED ECG ANALYSIS MODEL | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL DEVICE SECUREMENT, WOUND CLOSURE, AND WOUND/INCISION DRESSINGS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681675 | DILATABLE BILIARY DRAINS | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
| 18279124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL DEVICE SECUREMENT, WOUND CLOSURE, AND WOUND/INCISION DRESSINGS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) INTERPRETATION USING AN ARITIFICAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL AND A RULE-BASED ECG ANALYSIS MODEL | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18681675 | DILATABLE BILIARY DRAINS | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18279124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL DEVICE SECUREMENT, WOUND CLOSURE, AND WOUND/INCISION DRESSINGS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Bryan Mcallister Lee has the most, with 1 of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
